On Thursday, I will be uploading Foreign Chops: Czech Republic to The LAMB. We have a good number of submissions, but could get a lot more pretty easily. I did a little digging around and found a number of Czech…
How far would you go to provide comfort and care for the person you love most in the world? Would you sacrifice your own independence to take care of them full time? Would you go against the will of your…
I’m a sucker for a well-executed avant-garde film. I find the freedom of removing traditional boundaries of logic to be quite thrilling. Although horror rarely removes all traditional narrative concepts, the genre is a perfect match for the avant-garde style.…
Hausu is the strangest dream you’ve ever had brought to life on film. It is a haunted house movie where the characters are aware they are in a movie. They comment on their own actions, their role in the story,…
Different countries develop different horror tropes. In America, we have the body count slasher. In Italy, it’s the brutal gialli. In Japan, it’s the ultraviolent ghost. And in South Korea, it’s young women brought down by their own greed with…
The Vanishing is a critically acclaimed horror/thriller film from The Netherlands. The horror versus thriller distinction is a strong point of contention about this film in the same way The Silence of the Lambs is still argued about today. Both…
Sion Sono’s bizarro masterpiece Suicide Club faces one common thread of criticism: is the titular online society the actual driving force of the bloodshed in the film? Sono has long claimed that this (and the sequel Noriko’s Dinner Table) story…
Hour of the Wolf is a troubling nightmare of psychological isolation. Johann and Alma, a famous artist and his wife, begin to believe that a group of malevolent spirits are trying to tear their lives apart. Sure, they look like…
If an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind, what happens when the first person to take revenge doesn’t go for equal punishment? What happens when he choose to torment the original perpetrator in a bizarre reconditioning experiment?…
Cinematic Katzenjammer is hosting an interesting blogathon in honor of Halloween, horror, and the month of October. Bloggers are invited to write about the most [eff'd] up move they’ve ever seen. As soon as I saw the title of the…
Kiri kiri kiri kiri kiri. This is the sound of my nightmares. Not any real pain I’ve endured or a specific shocking scene from a horror movie: the sing-song call of a young woman bent on revengein a Japanee horror…
A married couple in Iran have amicably agreed to a divorce. There is only one sticking point: who does their daughter, Termeh, live with? If Termeh goes with her mother Simin, they’ll be leaving Iran within a few weeks on…
Trollhunter is a curiosity. Even in the context of the post-Blair Witch Project found footage/documentary horror genre, Trollhunter is something very different indeed. A group of film students decide to investigate a strange series of bear deaths. What they discover…
I’ve praised the film Certified Copy before. I believe that writer/director Abbas Kiarostami made a brilliant meditation on how we develop relationships. It’s beautiful, it’s sharply written, and the leading performances from Juliette Binoche and William Shimell are extraordinary. This…